Category: Web Briefing
Checking the Accuracy of My Predictions About the Democratic Presidential Nomination — they’re still holding
March 4, 2019, and again on January 30, 2020: Sanders wins Dem nomination. Highly likely. December 19th, 2019: Warren’s campaign is over. Check. January 6, 2020: Sanders wins Iowa and New Hampshire. Check. January...
So, it Turns Out the Hall Pass the DEMpire Gave to Bloomberg on Sexism and Racism has Expired
When the Daily Show’s piece on Bloomberg’s stop and frisk makes you cringe because of video and audio of Bloomberg himself talking, it’s not a good day at the Bloomberg campaign. I’ve watched The...
11,000 Attend Sanders Rally in Colorado
From the Denver Post: “We’re going to end a corrupt political system in which billionaires buy elections,” Sanders said. “Democracy, to me, means one person, one vote. Not Bloomberg or anybody else spending hundreds...
Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market
From the Daily Mail: Chinese scientists believe the deadly coronavirus may have started life in a research facility just 300 yards from the Wuhan fish market. A new bombshell paper from the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology says...
Politico: Bernie breaks out of the pack
From Politico: The dim prospects of anyone beating Sanders in Nevada were laid bare last week, when the state’s powerful Culinary Workers Union elected not to endorse in the presidential primary. Despite its criticism...
USA TODAY/Ipsos poll: Sanders outranks other Dems – and Trump – on values, empathy
From USA Today: the USA TODAY/Ipsos poll, conducted Wednesday through Thursday, shows Sanders has a clear advantage over the incumbent president. In the survey, 40% of voters said they admired Sanders’ character, well above the...
AOC Kicks of Her Re-election campaign
AOC from the New York Post: “We have some really ambitious goals,” she said. “Last election cycle, in the primary as we know, the turnout was quite low … this year, we want to...
“The Bernie Sanders movement is a strict church.”
Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: But the forces currently amplifying today’s anti-establishment fervor—the explosion of media, the democratization of fundraising, the abundance of viable candidates, and the advantage of niche products in crowded marketplaces—aren’t going away,...
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP): “It’s already been well established that UAP are real”
From Popular Mechanics: “This wasn’t focused on whether or not [UAP] are real. It’s already been well established that UAP are real by a preponderance of evidence. Some classified and some proprietary [that] I...
This Flu Season’s Weird Second Spike
From Live Science: “We may well have, for the second year in a row — unprecedented — a double-barreled influenza season,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, told WebMD.
Lancet: 82% of Infected have Mild Symptoms — of 41 Chinese Virus Hospitalized Patients, 15% Died, Seven Still Hospitalized
WSJ on Lancet findings on the Wuhan Virus: Most people who are infected may become only mildly ill, data suggest. Of 17,000 cases in China, 82% had mild symptoms, 15% were severely ill, and...
Dems are Now Media Bashers Too
Rage Against the Elites: Carville’s comments on the media exploded onto the internet like four ferrets that had been stuffed into a shoebox: I want to give you an example of the problem here....
AOC Pivot: Sanders may have to alter Medicare for All plan
From the NY Post: Ocasio-Cortez noted the difficulties as president of passing legislation, especially for a politically unpopular policy like Medicare for All. “A president can’t wave a magic wand and pass any legislation...
HSAs in the President’s Budget
HSAs in the President’s Budget: From Mr. HSA, Roy Ramthun, two areas of interest: (available here, see p. 81 and 86). Give Medicare Beneficiaries with High Deductible Health Plans the Option to Contribute to Health...
Wait? Is it a parallel universe? Liberals Admit Media Trashes Sanders
From TNR: An analysis by In These Times found that Sanders “received not only the least total coverage (less than one-third of Biden’s), but the most negative” coverage on MSNBC’s prime-time programming.
Chinese Virus can be spread by people who don’t show symptoms, CDC warns
Notwithstanding the repeated statements by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that there was no evidence of the Wuhan virus being spread by the asymptomatic infection, that conclusion was just publicly announced to be...
MIT: Hackers can alter ballots in widely used voting app
“You can’t hack a pencil,” New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner said. He’s right, of course. There is great wisdom and integrity in what Sec. of State Gardner said. Regarding the hackable voting...
“You see, I was one of those Democrats who considered anyone who voted for Trump a racist.”
Karlyn Borysenko author of “After Attending a Trump Rally, I Now Know Democrats Have No Shot in 2020:” I’ve been a Democrat for 20 years, but my experience made me realize just how out...
RCP: Pelosi Took Biden Out — the main question “is whether it was deliberate or accidental”?
The RealClear Politics article by Phillip Wegmann quoted below uses the same “friendly-fire” description used in my February 7th blog titled: “After Pelosi’s Impeachment Took Out Biden, Senator Klobuchar’s Rise will Continue“ From the...
FiveThirtyEight: A Contested Dem Convention has Become More Likely
Silver on Sanders: Sanders won the popular vote in each of the first two states (and he may eventually win the state delegate equivalent vote in Iowa). He leads in national polls (having recently overtaken former...
CNN: Bloomberg’s Statements on Race and Crime should “Disqualify him”
Quotes by Bloomberg from CNN: “You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are getting killed,” Bloomberg can be heard saying. “You want to spend the money on...
Waiting for the New Nevada Polls that Don’t get Spiked
Why aren’t there any new Nevada polls being published? With the Nevada caucuses ten days away, the last Nevada poll was published more than a month ago. The answer has to be that those...
Sanders wins New Hampshire primary
The hundreds of people who packed the Southern New Hampshire University field house where Sanders gave his election victory speech exploded into a thunderous roar when he took the stage. “This victory here is the...
Bloomberg’s big bet on the power of money
From Axios: By the numbers: In just over a month, Bloomberg spent more than the top 2020 contenders spent for the whole final quarter of 2019 combined, according to Federal Election Commission data. He also outspent...
Biden Super PAC Warns of Train Wreck if Sanders and Bloomberg Face-Off at the Dem Convention
“Donors hedging their bets on Biden because of Bloomberg could be creating a doomsday scenario for Democrats everywhere,” the group’s treasurer, Larry Rasky, wrote. “The Sanders-Warren wing of the Party is ready for the...
TIME: The DEMpire is Scared
This is the room that scares the crap out of the Democratic establishment: a college gymnasium in Keene, N.H., packed to the rafters with nearly 2,000 Bernie Sanders fans joyfully noodle-dancing to a Vermont-based...
Did AOC Not Mentioning Sanders and ICE Remarks Rankle Sanders Campaign Manager or is it the DEMpire Media Attempting to Sow Seeds of Discord?
Following Ocasio-Cortez’s three-day stint, Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, texted AOC’s campaign manager to express his dissatisfaction with aspects of her performance, according to a source familiar with the exchange. Specifically, the Sanders campaign was miffed...